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Title:Cybele Prevents Turnus from Setting Fire to the Trojan Fleet by Transforming the Ships into Sea Goddesses
Artist:Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (French, Paris 1714–1789 Paris)
Date:18th century
Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white.
Dimensions:14 15/16 x 18 9/16 in. (37.9 x 47.2 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1981
Object Number:1981.219
Marquis Charles-Philippe de Chennevières-Pointel (French)Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 4 - 7,1900, part of lot 403: "Jeune ouvrière assise et travaillant. Groupe de soudards couchés auprés d'une tente. Sujet tiré de l'Enéïde de Virgile. Trois dessins. A la sanguine et à la plume lavé de sépia."; Roblin , purchased for 125 francs (according to Louis-Antoine Prat, Chennevières exh. cat. 2007).; Michel Gaud (French), in 1978.; Vendor: Didier Aaron, Inc. (French)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "French Drawings Recently Acquired, 1975-1984," November 27, 1984–February 10, 1985.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections," February 3–April 25, 1999.
Philippe de Chennevières "Une collection de dessins d'artistes français." L'Artiste. 18, part 19, Paris, March 1897, p. 180.
Jacob Bean, Helen Bobritzky Mules Notable Acquisitions, 1981-1982: Drawings. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, p. 43, ill.
Olivier Aaron Dessins insolites du XVIIIe français. Paris, 1985, fig. no. 79, pp. 80, 81, 114.
Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th-18th Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, cat. no. 246, p. 219, ill.
Philip Conisbee "New York French Drawings [exhibition review]." The Burlington Magazine. vol. 128, London, December 1986, p. 925.
Olivier Aaron Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, 1714-1789. Cahiers du dessin français, no. 9, Paris, 1993, cat. no. 45, p. 17, ill.
Perrin Stein, Mary Tavener Holmes Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1999, cat. no. 37, pp. 86-87, ill.
Louis-Antoine Prat, Laurence Lhinares La collection Chennevières: Quatre siècles de dessins français. Paris, 2007, cat. no. 1073, pp. 494-495, ill.
Nicolas Lesur, Olivier Aaron Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, 1714-1789, Premier peintre du roi. 2009, cat. no. D.394, p. 445, ill.
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